[Mimedefang] cannot write to /var/spool/MIMEDefang_journal

[SRAR Mail Administrator]

I happened to need to restart our mail server today, and when I tailed 
the maillog (paranoia runs deep), I noticed this message:

May  3 15:11:17 meow mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: cannot 
write to /var/spool/MIMEDefang_journal, Bayes db update ignored

Here is the /var/spool/MIMEDefang directory:

[cat at meow MIMEDefang]# ls -lad
drwx------    3 defang   root         4096 May  3 15:04 .
[cat at meow MIMEDefang]# ls -lad *
drwxr-x---    2 defang   defang       4096 May  3 14:53 
mdefang-i43LrTxh012732
-rw-rw-rw-    1 defang   defang      71028 Apr 17 23:07 
MIMEDefang_journal
-rw-r-----    1 defang   defang          6 May  3 14:59 
mimedefang-multiplexor.pid
srw-------    1 defang   defang          0 May  3 14:59 
mimedefang-multiplexor.sock
-rw-r-----    1 defang   defang          6 May  3 14:59 mimedefang.pid
-rw-rw-rw-    1 defang   defang    2613248 Apr 17 23:08 MIMEDefang_seen
srwxr-x---    1 defang   defang          0 May  3 14:59 mimedefang.sock
-rw-rw-rw-    1 defang   defang    5083136 Apr 17 23:08 MIMEDefang_toks

I changed MIMEDefang_journal to  -rwxrwxrwx to see if that would make a 
difference. It didn't.

Here are my bayes-related entries in 
/etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-mimedefang.cf:
auto_learn              1
bayes_auto_expire                       1
bayes_path                              /var/spool/MIMEDefang
bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam      0.5
bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam         5.5
bayes_expiry_max_db_size                100000
bayes_file_mode                         0644
bayes_ignore_header                     X-Spam-Status:
bayes_ignore_header                     X-Spam-Score:
bayes_journal_min_size                  10240
bayes_journal_max_size                  5120000
bayes_learn_to_journal                  1
bayes_min_ham_num                       100
bayes_min_spam_num                      100

Here is my system's config:

Fedora Core 1

[cat at meow root]# uname -a
Linux meow.srar.com 2.4.22-1.2149.nptlsmp SMP i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

[cat at meow root]# perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.1 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

Can anyone clue me into what I need to do to fix it?

TIA,

-Loren

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-Loren K Louthan | tel: 818 786 2110 | AIM: LorenSRAR
-Data Communications Engineer - CRISNet Regional MLS
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